HMS Good Hope along with HMS Drake, HMS King Alfred and HMS Leviathan made up the Drake Class of armoured cruisers. HMS Good Hope became the flagship to the 1st cruiser squadron, Atlantic Fleet 1906 and in 1908 became the flagship to the 2nd cruiser squadron. She went into the reserve fleet in 1913 but on the outbreak of world war one joined the 6th cruiser squadron, she became the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock but was sunk during the Battle of Coronel 1st November 1914 by the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. She sank with the loss of the entire crew.

K.M.S. Gneisenau - Stand by The Bowlines by Randall Wilson.